Visual patch manager?

[Ken Brakey]

I think that would really be neet! for us LINUX NEWBIES that don't know
comere from sicum.
I really couldn't have gotten this far without all the GREAT help from the
OMNIPOTENT
LINUX GODS, such as yourself.
Ken

Richard Dale wrote:

> Reading the various posts about problems with patching the latest
> KDevelop1.0beta4, I was thinking that a visual patch managing tool would be
> really useful. I don't know if  there is such a thing already. I only
> discovered 'kpackage' yesterday after having been using KDE since August :-( .
> Lots of KDE things things seem to be missing from the Red Hat/LinuxPPC version
> that I have.
>
> I work on my changes to KDevelop in a directory called 'kdevelop-1.0beta4objc',
> and I keep a vanilla version in 'kdevelop-1.0beta4'. When I want to create a
> patch I have to clear out all the '.o' files etc in kdevelop-1.0beta4objc so
> diff doesn't include them in the patch. Then of course you test the patch, find
> you've made a mistake, and have to build all the '.o' files again, test the fix
> to the patch, remove the '.o' files and so on.
>
> I would like to be able to have a visual tool (invoked from KDevelop?) which
> would create a patch of 'kdevelop-1.0beta4objc' against ''kdevelop-1.0beta4',
> ignoring junk files. Then put up a little editor window to format a time stamp
> and programmer's name with the change log at the front of the patch.
>
> Then the same tool might keep a catelogue, like kpackage of what's there and
> help install them. Perhaps this functionality could go in kdiff or kmerge - or
> perhaps a standalone tool?
>
> I've only recently been using the 'patch' utility, but I find it really
> useful.
>
> -- Richard